Abstract: It is provided a method for avatar configuration, a method for avatar realization, a client terminal, a server, and a system for avatar management. The method for avatar configuration may include: outputting, at a client terminal, an avatar model for the user to configure when the client terminal receives a request from the user to configure an avatar; obtaining, at the client terminal, configuration data of the avatar model, the configuration data comprising bone movement data and decoration data; and performing, at the client terminal, an encoding process on the configuration data, and forming avatar data of the user. The way of configuring an avatar can be extended, and the avatar can be customized. Therefore, the representation of the avatar can meet actual requirements of the user to exactly represent the image that the user wants to show.